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            "https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/charakorn25a.html"
          ],
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      "id": "2607.02512",
      "title": "Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions",
      "authors": "Wentao Zhang, Liliana Hotsko, Woojeong Kim, Pengyu Nie, Stuart Shieber, Yuntian Deng",
      "first_public": "2026-07-02",
      "first_public_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512",
      "arxiv_first_submission": "2026-07-02",
      "date_label": "arXiv v1",
      "arxiv": "2607.02512",
      "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512",
      "venue": "NeurIPS 2026 (accepted)",
      "lens": [
        "neural-programs",
        "generated-adapters"
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        "Program-as-Weights",
        "ProgramAsWeights",
        "PAW",
        "fuzzy-function programming",
        "neural compiler",
        "neural interpreter",
        "FuzzyBench"
      ],
      "summary": "Proposes fuzzy-function programming: compile a natural-language function specification into a neural program, then reuse it locally.",
      "contribution": "Develops the compiler–interpreter abstraction and programs that combine text with learned parameters. Introduces the 10M-example FuzzyBench dataset, local execution interfaces, and image-conditioned compilation. Prefix tuning and LoRA are two implementations.",
      "limitations": "Each compiler produces programs for a specific interpreter. Compiled parameters are opaque, and FuzzyBench uses synthetic data.",
      "program_form": "A discrete pseudo-program and a compiler-generated parameter-efficient module.",
      "conditioning": "A function specification, optionally with examples. The image extension also accepts visual information.",
      "execution": "A frozen lightweight interpreter loads the program and runs new inputs locally.",
      "relationship": "Compile by Training builds on this programming abstraction. It keeps the same interface and refines the fast compiler’s prediction using synthesized examples.",
      "relationship_source": "https://arxiv.org/html/2609.04199v1#S1",
      "project_url": "https://programasweights.com/",
      "code_url": "https://github.com/programasweights",
      "equal_contribution": [
        "Wentao Zhang",
        "Liliana Hotsko",
        "Woojeong Kim"
      ],
      "venue_source": "https://yuntiandeng.com/",
      "provenance": "July 2026 arXiv paper. NeurIPS 2026 acceptance is listed on Yuntian Deng’s homepage.",
      "author_names": [
        "Wentao Zhang",
        "Liliana Hotsko",
        "Woojeong Kim",
        "Pengyu Nie",
        "Stuart Shieber",
        "Yuntian Deng"
      ],
      "record_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/2607.02512/",
      "legacy_record_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/#paper-2607-02512",
      "citation_date": "2026-07-02",
      "json_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/2607.02512/record.json",
      "markdown_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/2607.02512/index.md",
      "bibtex_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/2607.02512/citation.bib",
      "csl_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/papers/2607.02512/citation.csl.json",
      "method_comparisons": [
        {
          "title": "From generated adapters to reusable functions",
          "text": "Hypter, HINT, HyperTuning, and Text-to-LoRA generate adaptations from descriptions or examples. PAW uses generated parameters as part of a program that can be saved, called from ordinary code, and reused by a fixed interpreter.",
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            "2212.10315",
            "2211.12485",
            "2506.06105",
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          ],
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          "topic_label": "Generated weights and adapters",
          "topic_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/guides/compilation/#generated-adapters"
        },
        {
          "title": "Code and neural programs",
          "text": "ALCHEmist generates symbolic labeling programs. PAW compiles fuzzy functions into text and learned parameters. Both build an artifact once and reuse it; one runs as code, the other on a neural interpreter.",
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            "PAW evaluation"
          ],
          "topic_id": "neural-programs",
          "topic_label": "Programs and reusable artifacts",
          "topic_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/guides/fuzzy-functions/"
        },
        {
          "title": "What gets reused?",
          "text": "Gisting caches a few instruction activations. Generative Adapter stores context in parameter updates. PAW saves a function as a program containing text and a neural module.",
          "source_ids": [
            "2304.08467",
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          "topic_label": "Context compression",
          "topic_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/guides/compilation/#context-compression"
        },
        {
          "title": "Program form and compiler",
          "text": "LoRA represents adaptation as low-rank weight updates; prefix tuning uses continuous activations. Their original methods learn these parameters from examples. PAW generates both forms from specifications.",
          "source_ids": [
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            "2607.02512"
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        {
          "title": "Fast prediction and training",
          "text": "PAW’s fast compiler predicts a program. Compile by Training starts from that prediction, generates examples, and trains an adapter. Both use the same runtime interface; the extra training improves semantic accuracy on FuzzyBench-Hard at a higher compilation cost.",
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          "topic_id": "training-compilation",
          "topic_label": "Compilation through training",
          "topic_url": "https://programasweights.com/reading-list/guides/compilation/#training-compilation"
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